Western cyclone., 1887-06-02
DEATH LIST INCREASING.
DETAILS OF THE THEATER FIRE
ADD TO THE HORROR.
Sickening Scenes Among the RulnS-A
New York Tenement House Dis
trIct Ablaze.

| PARIS, May 27.-The scenes about the
ruins Of the burned theater are pitiful in the
extreme, and great crowds are gathered
around looking for relatives or
friends supposed to have been
lost in the awful catastrophe
The police say this morning that SO far as
learned seventeen persons lost their lives i'll
| the fire, and that about 10 were more or less
burned or otherwise injured it is impoSsi-
bic yet to search the red-hoi Ills, but when
this is done it is feared the denth list will be
largely augmented Two thousand persons
were in the audience and $50 Oh the stage
when the flames burst forth, and the whole
interior or the theater was almost immedi-
ately ablaze. A terrible panic ensued, Very
soon after the alarm hundred thousand
people were blocking up the approaches
to the holocaust, adding great
ly to the difficulties and dangers
Among the dead were four fremen.
; The majority, however, were the young girls
WHO acted as fgurantes in "Mignon," the
opera that was being sung. There were all
the attendant horrors of a theater fire. The
crush after the first moment of panic was ter
rife. Tasquin, one OF the singers, displayed
great courage but bad judgment i'll standing
on the stage and calling on the audience to
Keep their seats. Two precious minutes were
lost III this way. The iron stage curtain was
let down, ana did great deal TO give the au-
dience time to escape. Several men, attaches
OF the theater, who had Climbed to the roof
were cut oil. After climbing TO the topmost
chimney they were compelled to jump, and
were crushed out Of shape. There were a
considerable number OF Americans in the
boxes, but they all escaped
About all hour after the fire was first dis
covered the crowd in the neighborhood Of
the opera house saw two men jump from tue
burning roof into the Rue FaVari When
their dead bodies were picked up il was
found that they were employees OF the the
ater, VINO had evidently been cut off from ali
egreSs by the flames and driven to the roof.
2p. m.--Twenty bodies i'll terribly mutt
lated condition have been removed from the
ruins. The remains are principally those of
ballOt-girS, chOristerS, and machiniSts Five
OF the bodies are those OF elderly ladies, and
one Of them is that of child. The firemen
are lowering some OF the bodies from the
fourth story OF the theater by means OF
ropes.
4p. m.-Twenty more bodies were recov-
cred this afternoon from the ruins of the
Theater Comique. The remains of three
men and two women were found in the stage
box, where the victims had taken refuge
from the flames. 1t is ascertained that many
bodies lie buried in the debris in the upper
galleries, whence escape was exceedingly diff
ticult.
Late this afternoon the bodies of eighteen
ladies, all in full dress, were found lying to-
gether at the bottom OF the staircase leading
from the second story. These ladies all had
escorts at the theater, but no remains of men
were found anywhere near where the women
were burned to death.
The walls Of the building began to tumble
this evening and the search for bodies had to
be abandoned for the day. The library at
tached to the theater was entirely destroyed
with all its contents, including many vau-
able scores Six thousand costumes were
burned in the wardroba,
The work of searching for bodies was re.
sumed tonight, and a number more ex-
humed.
An official statement says fifty bodies have
already been recovered.
NJ. ReveilOn, speaking III the Chamber of
Deputies this afternoon, estimated tnat at
least two hundred persons losI their lives i'll
the fire.
The Chamber of Deputies voted q credit of
GOUOOO francs IOf TelleA Oh sufferers Oy the
Opera Comique fire.
The Opera Comique was insured for 1,OO0,-
coo francs.
To-day $50 missing persons have been in
1uired for by relatives They are supposed
TO have perished in the flames.
The bottom of the theater is flooded by
water to the depth OF five feet.
Sixty bodies have been founl floating in the
water by the firenen.
Finding of charred remains continues. The
remains are recognizable only by means Of
trinketS.